# 1507 search results for "regression"

## Cheat sheet for prediction and classification models in R

August 9, 2012
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Ricky Ho has created a reference a 6-page PDF reference card on Big Data Machine Learning, with examples implemented in the R language. (A free registration to DZone Refcardz is required to download the PDF.) The examples cover: Predictive modeling overview (how to set up test and training sets in R) Linear regression (using lm) Logistic regression (using glm)...

## The Relative Importance of Predictors – Let the Games Begin!

August 9, 2012
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What's the one thing we need to do?Marketing researchers are asked this question frequently whenever they analyze customer satisfaction data.  A company wishing to increase sales or limit churn wants to focus only on the most important determinants of those outcomes.   Given the limitations imposed by the available customer survey data, this strategic question is transformed quickly into a methodological one concerning how...

## “Trend is Not Your Friend” Applied to 48 Industries

August 8, 2012
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Please see previous post Crazy RUT in Academic Context Why Trend is Not Your Friend. I’ll repeat the intro to the post mentioned above, so we can all get caught back up. In response to Where are the Fat Tails?, reader vonjd very helpfully referred me...

## A bunch of R (and JAGS) scripts

August 6, 2012
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I finally (nearly) got around to prepare the R code to replicate the examples in the book. I divided the examples by chapter and then linked to the R scripts and, for those involving Bayesian analysis, the associated JAGS models.At the moment, the scri...

## A heuristic enhancement of optimisation algorithm

August 6, 2012
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$x_t = z_t \sqrt{h_t}; z_t \sim \mathcal{N}(0,1)$

The majority of the world’s problem deal with directly or indirectly some kind of optimisation. Instance of optimisation of resources or utility function can be seen our daily life. Here I am talking about standard optimisation problem in statistics, maximum … Continue reading →The post A heuristic enhancement of optimisation algorithm appeared first on Fiddling with...

## Adventures at My First JSM (Joint Statistical Meetings) #JSM2012

August 6, 2012
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During the past few decades that I have been in graduate school (no, not literally) I have boycotted JSM on the notion that “I am not a statistician.” Ok, I am a renegade statistician, a statistician by training. JSM 2012 was held in San Diego, CA, one of the best places to spend a week during the summer. This...

## Early August flotsam

August 5, 2012
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Back teaching a couple of subjects and it’s the constant challenge to find enough common ground with students so one can push/pull them to the other side of new concepts. We are not talking about complex hierarchical models using mixed … Continue reading →

## Getting Started Using R, Part 1: RStudio

August 4, 2012
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Despite my preference for SAS over R, there are some add-ons to “basic” R that I’ve found that have made my learning process way easier.  While I’m still in my infancy in learning R, I feel like once I found … Continue reading →Getting Started Using R, Part 1: RStudio is an article from randyzwitch.com,...

## Discriminating Between Iris Species

August 4, 2012
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The Iris data set is a famous for its use to compare unsupervised classifiers. The goal is to use information about flower characteristics to accurately classify the 3 species of Iris. We can look at scatter plots of the 4 variables in the data set and see that no single variable nor bivariate combination can achieve this. One approach to improve the separation